Oh, The Horror: War of the Worlds

Oh, The Horror – War of the Worlds

2 Thessalonians 2:6-12

6And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time. 7For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. 8And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: 9Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, 10And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: 12That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

Ah yes, the one that took deception to a whole new level. While technically the one I am speaking of, directed by Orson Welles was a radio broadcast adaptation of H.G. Wells’ novel and not a film, I just had to add it for this Oh, The Horror message because of the wisdom, my heavenly Father recently spoke to me concerning this.

The War of the Worlds, directed and narrated by Orson Welles in 1938 was presented as a series of mock news bulletins that caused pandemonium because listeners mistook this fake news about a Martian invasion as the real thing, sound familiar.  I could drop the mic right there, but there is so much more to this message than that.